Bespoke RVN joinery – mini break-front wardrobes just in with mitres and routered details.

Bespoke RVN joinery – space in 2nd reception to house 450mm deep “cloakroom’ cupboards accessed in hallway with stepped detail for hidden handle

Pivot doors and side lights insatlled earlier today.

Properly under the cosh! Check out exhausted builder in garden! We are getting there. Lots of things coming in at the same time…possibly out of sequence given the constraints. Going to be fab.

Bespoke RVN Kitchen – installation taking shape.

May Day in Cornwall – beginning of summer! No disstress call…. just showing how the planting is getting along! Despite very sheltered site, the stakes for the tamarix trees will be needed for time given the south westerlies.

Bricked up chimney and bringing forward with bulk head above to allow for 600mm deep flush wardobes and new fire place… eventually!

Cement board soffit in and prep work for kebony cladding.

Pretty much done..finished…. delighted with Ali Robinson’s steel room divider and RVN bespoke joinery cantilevered side board housing hidden TV with ochre sprayed metal shelving above in recess.

RVN bespoke joinery library & screen divider with sprayed boxes puncturing douglas fir fins on the edge of the split level. Note douglas fir space saving steps. In background see Ali Robinson’s desk ‘Haymerle’ – winner of SIT AWARDS 2022.

Prepping upstand for 18 meter roof light.

Fine line aluminum sliding doors and glazing in.

Steels needles and ground works – all go!

3.2 meter high basement ceiling! Bespoke RVN upholstered felt panelled doors with hidden bar in SOUND PROOF kids den.

Polished plastered walls over 5 floors throughout halls, stairs and landing. Roger Oates stair runner.

Concept sydy for new kitchen.

Installation of bespoke RVN joinery. Just see the flapped TV slot that hides the TV below the ochre sprayed 4mm metal library recessed unit. Ali Robinson’s Symonds shelving & room divider.

Concept drawing for Ali Robinson’s Symonds shelving & room divider.

Steel and roof ribs for butterfly roof making progress!

Concept scheme signed off!

Over sailing cedar fins showing shadow of garden shed.

Just taken a soaking…floating decking oversailing granite tiered garden.

Fabco internal glazing installed bewteen master dressing and bathroom.

Concept scheme – tiered kitchen and dining overlooking pond in deep well so the basement study enjoys some lovely views and light.

Concept scheme – tiered kitchen and dining overlooking pond in deep well so the basement study enjoys some lovely views and light.

Bespoke RVN joinery installation showing the air con timber griil and bespoke bronze handles.

Decided NOT to build the spare bedroom’s ensuite but instead allow for this wonderful light to flood into the 1st floor landing.

Burnt larch and cedar pergola and decking.

Early concept layout…not sure!

Parquet going in.

Arch way taking shape and puncturing through to new side extension.

Steels & block work. Excavated seating pit and two openings for roof lights.

Large internal window opening between kitchen and family room.

Sewage treatment plant soakaway in progress.

Glorious day in June! Pergola steels to be clad in burnt larch.

Glorious day in June! Lean-to shed getting ready to be clad in slim cedar fins.

Recent excavation and tanking of the kitchen seating pit…

Early setting out of the lower and upper garden levels.

Installing bespoke RVN kitchen.

utility panelling and secret loo door recenty installed.

Puncture through reception into new kitchen extension.

Demolition to create new master bathroom.

New opening and slot window into rear extension.

Won planning consent! Concept sign off pre-planning application submission, for mansard and dormers loft conversion, double height side extension and rear extension.

Significant reconfiguration of 1st floor under way – total game changer!

Beginning excavation of seating pit – hit some piles…

Detail of this cantilevered unit from one of our RVN bespoke kitchen island design showing our bespoke bronze handles and the thin detail of the corian top.

Micro cement flooring looks amazing! Very happy with this finish by Andrew Cooke… just enough movement to give the pattern we are after.

Extension materials and finishes concept

 All bedding in nicely

Just started site. Demolished previous extension – see beam + temp propping required for new extension

Just started site. Blocking off bedroom door for new master bathroom and new lintel bewteen the two.

Just moved in. RVN bespoke kitchen, Ali Robinson double vitrine. Amazing lighting from Lassco.

Concept scheme look and feel. Starting site early Jan.

Concept designed sign off early summer, planning won, working drawings completed and starting site early Jan.

Clients lovely sweet dog staring at forlorn landscape – to be started soon!

Ali inspecting bootroom RVN bespoke joinery.

Family bathroom, RVN bespoke joinery: sprayed drawers and panelling beneath bath, corian work top and bath surround. Lighting form TwentyTwentyOne and Sanitaryware from CP Hart.

RVN bespoke joinery – secret panelling – 60% gloss, hiding cloakroom cupboards, downstairs loo and run of kitchen tall units around the corner. These stunning grey hex tiles we got from Grestec and we sourced this amazing pendant from the outsanding Moioli Gallery.

Decorating tower – WIP at the end of the day…

Raised the trusses by 1.5 meters – the most important and transformative design in the barn, altering the sense of volume. Great clients…listened and agreed! You can see the threshing window cill which was just above te old floor level.

Stereo suede wallpaper just hung – looking fab agaisnt the Longbourne fireplace by Jamb with honed slate slips and hearth… so very handsome.

Waterproofed polished plaster… loads of wax. Very happy with finish by Andrew Cooke… just enough movement with the trowel to give the pattern we are after.

Opening for large RVN design bespoke bronze glazing system with pivot door and deep reveals – can’t wait to see that in. Repaired brickwork is very beautiful by Kingsmen construction.

Steel substructure for RVN bespoke kitchen island that will take fully cantilevered unit.

Stuffed birds! Love it or hate it! Birds of prey… bamboo framed taxidermy in newly completed hallway. Door opening into dark sprayed panelling.

Major Ikea hack in the smartest of properties! Revamped bed – sprayed with new oak handles and trim with lovely soft furnishings. Exquitsite 1920s portrait of a lady covers deep storage behind panelling. Wall light from TwentyTwentyOne.

Last touches. DELIGHTED with recent acquistions – pendant and chandelier from Pamono and bedside table lamps by Endellion.

Levelling concrete slab. The seating pit shuttering awaiting.

Kingsmen construction doing the most wonderful job re roofing – senstive restored… see wonky ridge line maintained very much on purpose.

Reception joinery starting. See internal window into hallway and dining room beyond. RVN bespoke joinery – hague blue sprayed units with bronze top that breaks through internal window into a hallway shelf. Still not 100% sure about how to deal with the flat panel covering the vertical waste.

Beginning of new orangery.

Bespoke RVN bronze pivot door being installed.

Deep storage going in…this will be covered by a day bed and painting.

Botanical prints and hanging plant pots purchased last week and hung today.

The waste pipe….couldn’t alter the route so got to change reception joinery design. Manifold for underfloor heating…. CANNOT WAIT to see Denisen 320mm wide Douglas Fir 4 meter long boards fitted later.

New opening into dressing room

Full on strip out. Removing threshing barn first floor and undertakig significant changes to trusses to increase sense of volume. Paul Longdin doing great job assisting RVN.

Creating the L shape drawing room. Doing our best to salvage old floor boards top reinstate, stain and oil.

See wonky ridge line…going to keep that despite massive changes to roof trusses.

Demolition in full swing.

Closed off a wasteful corridor to gain a new room! Transformed.

SOOO pretty…But she is ready for a full on transformation and will utterly change how the family use this lovely farmhouse.

RVN bespoke kitchen installation.

RVN bespoke joinery in study being installed… desk top coming later today to sit above the radiator.

Rip out, correx protection down… ready to go…!!

Look and feel.

Ground floor of the barn demolition drawings.

We removed the staircase to one of the houses and you can see a new 1st floor balustrade enclosing the opening. What is fun is that one can stand beneath this and look up 3 floors to the skylight above. A great deal of time was spent with our client working out the flow, connections and sightlines when combining these two houses.

Early kitchen rip out.

Pale, with minimal ‘movement’, polished plaster, covers the core of the house top to bottom… its being covered today. Andy Cooke and his team did a marvellous job.

Lads off for a morning break.

Removal of staircase to no 20 leaves this marvellous volume to enjoy. We then simply punctured the spine party wall and created bridges to traverse between the two houses… but yet it now very much feels like a single home.

Internal window solution to get light inti master bathroom from master bedroom.

The ‘bridges’ created by a) removing the main staircase to no.20 and b) flipping the staircase 1st to 2nd in no.18.

Reconfiguring the master bedroom to make an ensuite and wardrobes.

Reconfiguring to make the kitchen and adjoining 3rd bedrrom cum study.

First puncture made through party wall.

Punctures, bridges and roof lights taking shape.

Early days stud work to make the 3rd bedroom cum study, master dressing room – all separate from hallway.

Back for photo shoot and chat with client about a new commsission.

Just started on site… demolition bagged.

View from children bedroom.

Staircase and panelling below internal windows taking shape. The key was getting the double dormer over the staircase… it will definitely seem that this floor always existed!

We found some fabulous reclaimed doors from Lassco – you can see it propped up and another one on the back wall with pretty stained quadrants.

Break out space with deep chamfered walnut finned screen and pivot door.

Working out of hours only!

Working out of hours only! Formed traingulated ceiling and lighting detail.

Studio storage going into double fronted loft conversion.

Just beginning stud work in loft.

Just taken out staircase.

New opening for kitchen roof light.

First fix lighting in loft conversion.

Break out room – bespoke RVN joinery storage.

Working late… again in office fit out.

Roof demolished and beginning of build at double fronted loft conversion.

Demolishing roof and old insulation – all going!… Just starting new loft conversion project for a design studio in a double fronted villa – very exciting.

Concept scheme for new loft conversion project for a design studio in a double fronted villa.